Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-10
Address of the National Committee
American Voters.


American Voters.
WASHINGTON, December 9th.-The call
for the next National Republican ConYen-
ton has been issued by the committee to
the Republican electors of the United
States, fixing the Convention at Chicago,
June 10, 1888. 1t reads:
Republican electors in the several States,
and voters-without regard TO past political
affiliations, difference or action-Who be-
lieve in the American principle OF a pro-
tective tariff for the defense and develop
ment of home industries, and the eleva-
ton of home labor; who would reduce
the national taxes and prevent the accumu-
lation of a surplus in the Treasury, in
harmony with this principle; who are op-
posed to the attempt, now more openly and
avowed than ever before, to establish
policy which would strike down American
labor to the level of the underpaid and op-
pressed workers in foreign lands; who favor
naval and coast defenses which would en-
able the United States to conduct interna-
tional negotiations with self-respect; who
gratefully cherish the defenders of the coun-
try; who condemn and resent the con-
tinued and unjust exclusion of rapidly
growing Territories, which have indis-
putable title to admission into the
sisterhood of States; who favor free
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and honest ballot, and fair count the
protection of every citizen of the United
States in his legal rights at home and
abroad; foreign policy that shall extend
our trade and commerce to every land and
cline, and shall properly support the dig
nifty OF the nation, and the promotion of
friendly and harmonious relations and in
tercourse between all the States-are cor
daily invited to unite under this call in
the formation of a national ticket
Each State shall be entitled to four dele
gates at large, and for each Representative
at large two delegates, and each Congress
sional District, each Territory, and the
District of Columbia, to two delegates.
The delegates at large shall be chosen by
State Conventions called in not less than
twenty days after published notice, and
not less than thirty days before the meet
ing of the National Convention. Congress
sional District and Territorial delegates
shall be chosen in the same manner as the
nomination of members of Congress are
made in the same district. An alternate
far each delegate shall be elected in the
same manner and at the same time. All
notices of contest must be filed with the
National Committee in writing, accom-
panied by printed statement of the
grounds, which shall be made public.
, O!iali iieh Joheo Ais iPPo!hleu Tue 1oI-
lowing committee to visit Chicago and ap-
point local Committee of Arrangements,
ia take charge of the preparations for the
Convention: J. S. Clarkson, of Iowa; A.
L. Conger, of Ohio; G. A. Hobart, of New
Jersey; Powell Clayton, of Arkansas; Cyrus
Leland, Jr., of Kansas; Church Howe, of
Nebraska n. W. Quincy, of Texas. Chair
man Jones and Secretary Fessenden are
members of the committee, ex-officio The
committee elected J. S. Clarkson Chairman,
and a subcommittee, with full power, con-
sisting of Clarkson, Conger, Clayton, Jones
and Fessenden